The Sun. — London, England, 1836-02-04 00:00:00

1) °ITS ADDRESS to the Bltl NATION. Freedom's battle once be.gun, liequeath'd by bleeding sire to son, Though baffled oft is ever won."— The alour. Half a It BYRON. - 'l l - . a century will soon have elapsed since the qrsnts anal despots who I sad sworn perdition to Poland, sUcceeded hi dismembeslng thei r v i c ti m, as ensnared in the nets of their devilish, policy an d wea k ened by internal strife and disease, she lay crushed and heart-broken beneath the weight Of countless WO2S, and neglected and abandoned by the svi...ole world. After blast:ng with cal.umny before the than weak and smenlightened tribunal of public opittitn h er pure and once all l ustrous fame, they flew to revel in h er spo il s ; and, as h er ancient name d'sappeared from th e map o f the globe, full of ferocious rapture at their easily achieved conquest, they shouted aloini--." Poland is no more !" And the nations of Eurolse, fear-stricken and deprave:!, seemed to echo, in heartless mockery—. Poland is no more !" Yet still --ne survived—death over her had obtained not the victor. Still did the b rea th o f a li fe from impe as y simate her mangled b u t p a l p i tat i ng li mbs ; and erishabl 'nee grave arose a d eep stern voice that --minglir4; with the savage glee of her imagined de str°Yers. Was heard amid all the flush of fancied triumph and crime perpetrated with impunity and sheltered by power— whist,ered to their guilty and t rem bli ng h earts, " Poland cat :not perish ! She descendeth into the tomb but to rise :Again with greater glory, and complete the mission that heaven hails allotted to her, of protecting and eonsummat iulg the liberty and sa f e t y o f Ch r i stendom, of saving the civilized world from the yoke of the oppressor and the sword of the barbarian?' That voice, too, was heard by the warrior-patriot as he wandered in exile far from the home of Ills fathers, from the soil where rested the ashes of his k' '`s from the plains their blood had hallowed and thsj ir •virtues glorified,--it was heard by him amidst all his ts-As, and cheered him in all his suff "ings ; it consoled hite it yet . consoles him, for the tem- Porary loss of his cousstry, for the apathy and ingratitude of the nations that his sires in a thousand battles bled to save ; that he deems l siiinself destined yet to persevere. I ) , Yes ' it Was behind the adamantine shield of Polish valour, ne nth the shadow of the protecting wings of Poland, at once Alin parent and champion of reviving civilization, litera -I.4rqs and science, that Europe enjoyed a security essential to I,.er intellectual progress ; that she was enabled to perfect her industry and arts, and foster the flickering spark of a° wiedge into the glorious light that is now spreading wide or e .. " the earth —diffusing blessings wherever its heavenly . a .,. J" Penetrate, and purifying and exalting mankind. 4. 1 t Was against the frontiers of Polana, defended not by t e i l "dels and forts, but by the breasts of her gallant sons, alia,t.repeatedly broke thss invading torrents of the fierce in upnatic followers rdi INlabornet, until her warriors, pass- Ingthr"l the d -efer."ec of their own homes, and progressing Pr av i ° , l mi ghtY and exalted vocation with ' which they felt PU1.21 1 4 11 " ' , dad inv es t e d t h em as t h e sav i ours of Europe, Ao st ,i, ''Ald vanquished, in the heart o f the hereditar y z atio4:„Pessessi ons the last hordes that threatened civil' : to t h,. r it destru c ti on . Bi tter was t h e recompense awarded tho st ern generous valour ! When after ages of deadly strife lionoivyer_siosereinsteoafgaNinla,homet fell beneath the arm of Sobieski, ungrateful and selfish Europe, intent b. _ .. on rea.sim. v o and enjoying the blessings secured to her prYottne saerifices of Poland, with past danger forgot her the ?Tess •; and when that protectress, who, intent on iut lab of the camp and the protection of European ; . eol Qr ,t, had neglected her , own polity and omitted to fella cu Y the errors of 'an antiquated internal organization, A- PreY to the ambition, avarice, and intrigues of Russia, ecsstra, and Prussia,—her cries for assistance formed no A v t . l ° ia the hearts of the rulers and cabinets of Europe. g,". rn ,ed in v a i n of the ambitious designs of Russia, sug- Ic e u and dire c t e d b y t h e founder of her military power, tN i er the Great, they listened in blind security to the base the false adulation lavished by the poet of Ferney upon o f as Catherine ; and perceived not that there, as i _ yore, the blood of Poland was flowing not in defence of ee l .. f rom lf alone, but in struggling to protect civilized man th e Powers of darkness and barbarism, more terrible than 1 ° L se from rhich he had been already saved, and which IZ: e . (1 in the yet undefined but gigantic outline of the -8144 monster, which then first made its appearance on t , __ , . After a long period of internal w a ,, tl Q political horizon. o f and disturbances little known beyond the boundaries ti; e 't! ba r b arous an d icy steppes, Russia un it e d at l ast b y 4 , iron hand of a fierce but skilful chi e f, began to cast ; o °4 '. its throne of snows a l ong i ng eye upon the rich and , u nsbin g plains of civilized Europe. With . an instinct that to all savage hordes, the Moscovites soon perceived l et th e first and most formidable opponent in the path of ring"p e lt' contemplated conquests would be the ancient guardian ), urope, Poland ; that Iri removing her, the strongest bar ge which separated th.Jm from their covetted prey, would ',).e annihilated. T 0 the accomplishment of this object, therefore, were dlrected all the efforts of the ambitious, per severing, and merciless policy of Peter and his successors, aided and merciless infatuated Europ e herself in all their chiefsschem es for her own destruction ; for from her were derived to discipline the legionsdestined to be sheathed in hero_ wnb°osom whose swords were d ; and her skill was employe with to construct the vessels whose flan sho ld on challenge bee's the domini on of the R i_ . u so -cospuorus. At first, however, the strength of Poland made it unsafe for the Czar to at tempt to cope with her in open warfare. The difficulties resulting from constant wars abroad and dissensions at home ..ztlise.mine_.vi.table consequence of a Government:sin , eted only to ' s u tt e e ; simplicity and ideas of an earlier age—suggested to him , r , though slower, means of accomplishing' her de kruction. ,-, de- Relying in the blindness and inactivity of the European s kr t r Z er Tneuts, and imagining that in the divided and faded to b n is gta of Poland would be found no invincible obstacles tr c Projects, he prescr ib ed to his successors a course of obs,aelleslred.rY, intrigu e , an d aggression, which they faithfully Sins (i ;zat -:-)s. e quent events h ave b ut too c l ear l y proved, that the tl "al not falsely calculate the indifference of Europe, but de lc y also spew that he did greatly undervalue the power, vte,.tedness, and fortitude of 6 Poland. a,t.r.1.,e mistook a weakness, occasioned by the influence of i nter n and external circumstances acting upon a faulty p5,,‘,4'3. organization, for the want of physical and vital ri nn `:,* As soon as the proceedings of his successor Cathe c,Vne Second had removed all doubt of the designs of the i t i; Inet of St: Petersburg, Poland, mindful of her glorious s k „ -- " amongst the nations of Europe, animated with the sti e cPirit that had formerly made her the guardian angel (If ree dOrn and religion, and compensating for the deficiencie . 3 fle:aaterial forces by unlimited national and individual seem it,C, again stepped forward alone and unaided to the strife, Al in _. h was to determine the fate of the civilized world. In :that Midst of continual struggles which ensued, perceiving i t the form of her Government was the only impediment . f 0 'er efficiently overcoming the hordes of the Muscovite, Th r e i n a nation of warriors she suddenly became one of states ada ntld legislators, and finally, by the constitution of the 1 . 1 ,° ' I\ laY 1791, proved to the world, that in both these tz,Pects she was not to be surpassed by any of her con -,Poraries. shi'Nefrwithstanding her subsequent troubles, occasioned in i ,., Y by the weak and imbecile king that Catherine had an t i upon her, her unceasing patriotic efforts would s 4 1, t '-'dly have left her in the first rank of empires, if n'i-; "ad had Russia alone to contend with. But Catherine . . e ,.' a that her single strength would fail before the energies sQ,."generated Poland, dissembling her ultimate views, had assist 9'n'se to the plan of alluring Austria and Prussia to her I, b . a nc,e, by the offer of sharing with them the spoils of of t i;_ ic _tnn. The at once criminal and benighted cabinets th at ,7 80 two Powers, disregarding the voice of conscience,._ Lail „Linde them beware how they violated all that mankind hy' tb uc eo taught to revere as sacred and holy, and attracted liai"s" Prospect of a mere temporary gain, fell into the snare vio c i lor them, an d presented to the world the example of a to tl'e ?! le e unprec e d ente d i n t h e annals of history, and fatal 0 general w e lf are an d i nterests of humanity, while they i nesttroyed th e i r own defence against the common foe. Had the 9ie , Pure and holy voice of justice and conscience, but st • impulse merely of their true self-interest guided their ,eils, they should have seen that the advantages arising tosesin3 this an of their dominions could not com thon. ate for the dangers which must sooner or later menace by , 11-1 k f rom a neighbour already too powerful, and who, t ( i . '"e acquisition of one half of Poland, would be enabled Penetrate into the heart of Europe. They should have seen ti at P,. • • Over 1 -- Ru ssia, in investing them with temporary power the r emaining territories of' Poland, did so only to se c,,tir to herself afterwards a more certain and undivided cessession of that country, a possession at that moment iin .,(lB!ible, of which it I, vis , i ' icces.ary for her to accomplish, sl.,lailispensable to her schemes of forming an universal clavenian empire. The proposal of Alexander nt the ongress of Vienna, to unite to Russia the Duchy of War , originall so w . . divided between Austria and Prussia, seems lt° have Opened the eyes of Austria at least to the real de tas of her insatiable and insidious neighbour, and induced ceer at the same Congress to declare, that she was willing to ,nounee her share of the spoil, if the whole of independent I °land were to be restored ; a declaration that Prussia, Possessed of Posen, and promised Saxony, had neither the /vis durn nor the honesty to imitate or su - pport, -and which b eing but feebly, and, in consequence of the return of Napo leon, but hastily and imperfectly seconded by England and Pr ance, availed not against the wily and powerful Autocrat, W ho, taking advantage of the Napoleon panic and exhausted state of Europe, to work upon the fears of those he could ne t cajole, hinted both the danger of alienating him at that moment, and the possibility of supporting his proposal by the swords of his Cossacks. frightening In fact, b y some of the Cabinets, and sedue lng others into an action as infasnous as it was contrary to their interests, he contrived to make all Eurcpe tl.e instru ment of his schemes. The Muscovites might well have flattered themselves at that time that the vast and defi'ing' project of their great Czar wa3on the we of accomplishment, and that no power rernalne.. to check their progress to an univetsel Sclavonian monarchy. Tho blood shed daring so rtetriy rears over the whole Surface of the globe tiy the Mr's of Poland had settle into the groun4 iiiii:Rsenged. Treaties concluded withoet their 'c7diiiietit or participation have abandoned theni into the sanguinary hands of their murderers ; for the id 6) hastily adopted, and defective guarantees of the treaty of Vienna were known ens! Intended, at least by the Cabinet of St, Ptt6is l ourgh, to be, what they have since proved., Ulierly ineffectual, to protect Poland, though rafileient in the eyes of her Pretended, :fiends, but re - al betrayers, to palliate their neglect and abandonment of her, and of the most precious rights of nations. Accor dingly, the Muscovites, encouraged by past success, and their experience of the supineness of the Governments of Europe, proceeded immediately to the further devc- Inpement of the gigantic plan of Peter 1., and employing precisely the same means by which they had succeeded in subjugating Poland, induced those Goyeeoments to assist them in their schemes against Turkey, the conquest of which they regarded as tho first and necessary result of the annihilation of Poland. How far in this, as in former instances, Russia was just in her estimate of European fallibility, is shown by the no less surprising than undeniable fact, that the English broad sides at Navarino had no other effect, than that of esta blishing her suprolnacy at Constantinople, Well might she think that it her grasp were near the destinies of craven, inisgui(le,d, and corrupted tarope. Ville can ba astrprised after this, if emboldened and elated by moth astonishing success, the Czar attempted to seize the opportunity, apparently offered to him by the French revolution of July, 1830, of springing by one bold step to the very summit of his hopes, and overwhelming with his barbarous hordes the civilized countries of the west. If he deemed he had then the power of extinguish ing for ever the, to him, hateful and fatal light of know ledge wad freedom, and of annihilating at a blow every li beral in s tit u ti on , acqu i re d b y the blood of millions and the scientific toil of ages. The nations beheld with awe the tempest approaching from the north, and recalled too late to their memory, a series of errors and follies, if not of crimes, whose "house quente now threatened all their dearest interests with de struction. In the whole crowd of selfish politicians and narrow-minded diplomatists, who, unable to sympathise with the virtues, or appreciate the high destiny of Poland, had uttered her to fall unassisted, and who imagine that when the name of a country is effaced from the political map, its national existence is likewise at an end, there breathed not one who dreamed of beholding the Polish soldiers of the Czar obey aught but the behests of their treaty-assigned ruler. Fortunately the Czar was of the same belief, and actually ordered the Polish troops under the command of his brother Constantine, to become the van-guard of the vast invading force of barbarism, whose tents were once more to be pitched in the Champs Ely sees, whose savage appetites were to be glutted with the blood of free Prance. But Poland disappointed the base forebodings of diplomacy, and confounded the pre sumptuous hopes of the Czar. Poland, who, notwithstanding her disappearance from the map of Europe, was animated with a national, inde structible life, and true as ever to her glorious nature, and her vocation of the defender of civilization and liberty—. Poland, ever watchful, not over the interests and fate of transitory, time-serving, and vacillating cabinets, but the immutable and eternal rights and interests of na tions, on the first notice of an attempt dangerous to their liberties, issued forth from her supposed grave, and pro claiming aloud her purpose and her wrongs, once more alone and unaided, took the gauntlet of the giant chain, pion of violence and arbitrary power. In an instant the Polish army, from being the van-guard of Nicholas's forces, became the van-guard of the civilized nations of Europe. The strugglembetween despotic and liberal opinions, be tween the powers of light and of darkness, began on the banks of the Vistula instead of the Seine. Under the pro tecting buckler of the Polish legions, which checked the advance of the Czar, France forewarned of her danger had time to arm, while England recruited her national and po litical strength, by the achievement of her great Parliamen tary Reform. The victories of a handful of Poles over the countless forces of their foe arc well known ; they showed to asto nished and admiring Europe of what efforts the love of country and freedom render men capable ; they showed to her how powerful, virtuous, and brave a guardian of her independence she possessed in forgotten and in jured Poland ; and awakened at. length to a sense of her merits, her usefulness, her lofty destiny ; th,e nations of Europe panted to second and emulate her generous and heroic exertions in the common cause, but the cabinets remained deaf, as heretofore, to the voice of public opinion, and unable or unwilling to comprehend their duties towards the children of Sarmatia ; and when, after a year's struggle, she hrough the faults -and vaccillation of her chiefs, succumbed again for a time to the overwhelm ing forces of her oppressor ; she heard with indignation and disgust, too deep to be described, one of the Ministers of France proclaiming in the Chamber of Deputies, " Order reigns at Warsaw! !!" If that Minister, whose false and deceitful promises of assistance occasioned the faults and fatal delays of the Polish chiefs, could but, for one instant, have looked into futurity, or risen to the height of the spirit of the age he has dishonoured, he would have shrunk with horror from uttering those insulting and cruel words, which will cling to his memory through all ages, and for ever expose him to the scorn 'and pity of all generous minds. He who wishes to know what is the order that reigns at Warsaw and over the whole of Poland, let him go and look on her fields, sown with bones of her warriors, and fertilized with the blood of her daughters and children ; on her wasted hamlets, desolated towns, and ruined churches ; on the fettered victims, worn with toil, care, and disease, that groan in Siberia's horrible mines! Let him go and listen to the prayer, that night and morning rises to heaven from the lips of every true Pole that still is left living in the land of his fathers ! The Polish nation quitted the field of battle with the cheering and glorious conviction, that though deserted and aban doned, it had fulfilled the great purpose it had avowed and proclaimed at its up-rising in its manifesto and appeal to Europe. test of the indestlnctibility of .Poland is its past history ; and the actually existing and urgent necessity for iig.t6tto ration to a separate existence as a powerful and independent state for the safety and welfare of the ,great family of ci vilized nations, The tittle is When nations taught. by a long and bitter eXpOriende, ilia exerci se o f -in creased knowledge, and the discharge of their supreme Ind undoubted . right of self , govornment, will no longer suffer their rulers to overlook or betray; trifle with or neg lect, their best interests; Thzi.- time It ednie fdr practically demonstrating:lll6 gedat truth which lleland alone has long pelt and acknowledged, that all the civilized nations must form, intimately connected, and mutually dependent parts, of one and the same political system, revolving around the Terious and central principle of frcedom as plapqg d t roan the sun. The Polish nation, strong in this belief, is linnly per suaded, that although the duration of her sufferings may be protracted, she must inevitably and finally be victorious. Of all the people of Europe whose sympathy has been excited by the long struggle of Poland against the iniquitous aggressions of the Muscovite and his two allies, none has in spired her with greater delight, and a more confident hope of near independence, than the British. The ancient re lations of friendship which existed for ages between the two countries are still alive in the memory of old men. Poland, with regret mingled with pleasure, looks back to the times when, for the merchandizes of Great Britain she used to send from her crowded ports corn, timber, and other productions of her fruitful soil ; when the flourishing factories of English- merchants, established in all the towns along the coast of the Baltic, enjoyed equal privileges with the Poles themselves. The modern Poles cursing the invaders that severed these relations, so advantageous to both countries, arc looking with joy to new tiei of friendship and co-operation with the Brifsh nation, the most powerful protector of liberty and civilization on the earth. And it is but just to give her this title. The whole of mankind rightly expects its re demption from tyranny at the hands of a nation, who, prizing freedom above all earthly things, is the foremost in imparting its blessings to others, who employs its mighty power not in making new conquests, but in defending the oppressed, to whom Belgium, Spain, and Portugal, are greatly indebted for their success in throwing off the yoke of their respective tyrants. The strong and universal opinion entertained by the Bri tish nation concerning Russia, the chief foe of all liberty and independence, is the best proof that the further expec tations of mankind will not be disappointed. The ambi tious designs of the Czars against the East Indies, which they did not fear to avow publicly, and which are confirmed by all their proceedings in Persia and Turkey, show clearly to the British that the time is come when an effectual cheek must be given to the progress of this insatiable tyrant, and her powerful assistance be given to rid the already oppressed of his iron sway, and free the world from the fear of his fu ture aggressions. One word of the English Government diminished the influence of Russia in Persia, and restored a partial security and hope to the Sultan waverinc , on his pre carious throne. Turkey ere long be obliged to Britain for' her safety and independence, and the opportunity of leisure to achieve those salutary changes which will render her worthy of ranking amongst civilized nations. But, it were a great mistake to imagine that all this even will be sufficient to deprive the Czar of means of injuring mankind. Supposing even that the shores of the Black Sea should re turn to their ancient masters, that they would not deter Russia from watichinn• some favourable moment for seizing upon them, when by fomenting dissensions in Europe, through the medium of her Polish possessions, she should have succeeded, as so often heretofore, in divesting the re gards of other governments from the real objects of her plots. It were equally a great mistake to imagine that Russia will renounce her views of conquest so long as her su premacy in the north of Europe and in the states of the German confederacy, a supremacy which cannot be weakened by the diminution of her maritime power, gives her an almost decisive voice in all great continental transactions. Consequently, the annihilation of her in fluence in Turkey alone is by no means sufficient for the safety of Europe. In order to put a stop to the contemplated conquests of the Czar, the whole of ancient, undivided, Poland must he restored. This is the only way of confining Russia to her natural limits, in which, without having the power of wronging others, she may in time learn to appre ciate the blessings of civilization, and become a useful member of the society of enlightened nations. This was strongly felt, and fullyappreciated by Napoleon, who, ac tuated by political reasons alone, determined to restore to Poland her ancient frontiers, in order to entrust her with the protection of civilized Europe ; and subsequent events have left no doubt of the wisdom of his views and the necessity of this expedient. Such being the case, will Britain, who, independently of more important political reasons, owes it to her own dig nity and fame, and to the spirit of the age, of which she , is the hope and ornament, to punish the invaders and tyrants of the world, and to render justice to their victims. _ Will she remain deaf to the calls upon her to assist in achieving this great crowning act of that justice, this important con summation of universal peace and utility, and of the safety of Christendom ? It cannot be, but should the worst ar rive, should even Britain, contrary to all our hopes and expectations, be found unable or unwilling to appreciate the mighty and illustrious destiny to which events in vite her, neither the former ingratitude, nor the present indifference of Europe, will avail to throw Poland into such despair as to induce her to doubt the mercy and justice of heaven, or lead her to unite with the oppressors of Europe, and assist them in forging chains for the rest of mankind. No, nothing can shake her trust, her faith, in the sacredness of her cause ; her conviction that the crimes committed against her will be avenged. Even the sufferings and torments which would have eternally subdued the ;hit of any other nation less confident than her, in the justice and grandeur of its views, have only created in the Polish nation a still greater thirst for independence, and a stronger detestation of those who endeavour to bereave her of that treasure. That trust, that conviction, that faith, ever throb in each Polish heart, and engender from the ashes of the patriots who have fallen, new, and more numerous disciples of the cause for which they bled and died. 'The unfortunate issue of the last war has not in the least weakened her hope of better times. From the elevated station to which Poland in the midst of all her woes is raised by conscious virtue, she smiles at all the furious threats of the Czar, as the martyrs of old in the midst of their tortures raised towards heaven their con filent and serene raze. If," said the concluding lines of the manifesto, " the freedom of Poland is to succumb under the ruins of her towns and bodies of her defenders, our foe will reign but Over a wilderness ; aed every true Pole will bear with him in death, this consolation, that, if heaven allowed him not to preserve his own freedom and his own country, he, at least, by this mortal struggle, threw a shield, for a while, around the menaced liberties of Europe." Yes, for awhile, the legions of the Czar lay scattered over the plains of unhappy Poland, in idle inactivity, repairing' the losses, and healing the wounds received in the fierce strife that had impeded their further advance ; but only for awhile, again are they moving to the anticipated onslaught, again arrayed and ready for a new crusade against civilization, liberal institutions, and that Europe, that threw away so latQly the opportunity of driving them back for ever to their frozen steppes. The .Czar maddened by the overthrow of his most cherished wishes, v;sited the Polish nation with the whole fitry of his vengeance. His cruelties have surpassed all those perpetrated by his ancestors on that devoted coun try. Ile has peopled Siberia and the wilds of Caucasus with her citizens ; her universities are closed, her museums and libraries transported to Russia. He has dispersed the ministers of her faith, and converted their churches into barracks for his soldiery, or made them serve for the rites of the Greek Church, in order to compel the natives to abandon, with the language, the religion of their forefathers. The confiscated estates of the patriots he has diStributed among his generals. Even females did not escape his per secuting ferocity—prOseriptions, chains, scourging, and tor ments, became the lot of the loveliest and noblest of their sex. • It. were too long and too mournful a task to enume rate all the atrocities of the baffled Barbarian ; but among the most violent and monstrous of them are the transplant ing, from their native homes, many thousands of peaceful families to the wildernesses of the Russian steppes, and the vearly tearing from their mother' s arms t h ousan d s o f chilt . iren, to be educated in the Russi an m ili tary sc h oo l s, and forced into the ranks of an army, destin e d t o fi g ht against their own fathers : of these hapless victims, the greater part b e i ng - una bl e t o support the fatigue, priva tions, cold, and general cruelty of their treatment, are kit to perish, and in death alone to find consolation and rest. These two last crimes, unparalleled in history, show above all others that Nicholas' intention is to annihilate or expa triao the whole Polish population ; • and against this, what avails the so much talked of treaty, which awarded vague, and imaginary, and instantly violated, privileges to but a small portion of Poland. Treaty, whose artielis were sti pulated as it were in derision of her, and to minister to the pride of her oppressor ; and which deserves notice only as a proof of the manner in which Russia is wont to keep her pledged faith, to adhere to her engagements, and treat her allies. The Polish army quitted the field of battle unsubdued ; the Polish standards have not, been polluted by sub Mission ; no voluntary oath of slavery to the Czar has dishonoured Polish lips. The soil of Poland, bloody and in ruins, became his prey, but the ancient spirit of her sons remaird uncon quered, and superior to all the caprices of fortune ; but fearing lest the nations should mistake for the apathy of despair, the grave-like silence that now prevails her houses, and is in terrupted only by the groans of anguish, that all the care of the Czar cannot prevent from occasionally being heard beyond her confines ; she has sen t abroad thousands of her sons under the shade of their national banners, as the evi dence of her existence ; she h as sen t thorn to study care fully, and to communicate to their, brethren at liniuc, the first signs of her final resurrection ; she has ,sent them to learn from the nations of the West those great social sciences and truths by which the present age is so glo riously distinguished, that in returning home, they may amend what was faulty in the political fabric of their fore fathers, and admitting the whole Polish people to full par ticipation in the blessing or that liberty they have proved themselves so . well able to appreciate and (Vend ; she has sent them to tell the freemen of Europe that her cause is theirs—that Poland is still ready to draw the sword against the common foe, and to beseech them, in the name of their own best interests—in the name of justice and humanity, to - assist her in the hour of strife. Such is the office and mission of the Polish refugees' spread through all the enlightened and liberal countries of Europe, and presenting for the second time, since the dis memberment of Poland, the inspiring and unusual sight of a fraction of a nation, preservin g inviolably, and bearing to foreign shores, their nationality ; and. wherever they roam, animated but by one hope, toiling in word and deed but for one object—the restoration of their native land. The nations of Europe, by their reception of these pilgrims of patriotism and freedom, proved that they a pp rec i a ted their noble mission, and that they considered th em as apostles not only of Poland, but of mankind. F or thi s reason it' was, that when curses loud and universal were heaped on the sacrilegious head of the spoiler of Poland, the march of the intended victims of his cruelty through • German)' prance, and Switzerland, was a greater triumph than alp with which the gratitude of nations has ever honouree: their saviours. No less friendly and sympathizing - senti ments met those of the Polish refugees, who were thrown on the free shnres of Great Britain. A generous in dignation at their wrongs, and a feeling of abhorrence at their foes became general throughout the British island s . M eet i ngs were on all sides called to give " national expression to those feelings—Committees on all sides formed to relieve the wants of the sttfferers. Nu merous Memb ers o f P ar li amen t, amidst the unworthy and universal silence of European Governments, •did not hesi tate to announce to the Czar, that the hour of revenge for the blood of Poland was at band. The whole Parliament so far participated in the persuasion entertained generally by the nation of the inalienable rights of Poland, that the remembrance of 'a mere doubt of those rights having been expressed once by an English Peer, induced them to indig nantly demand and compel his resignation of the mission to St. Petersburg, to which the Ministry had appointed. him. With the unanimous assent also of Parliament., Govern ment itself came to the relief of the Refugees. Above. 011, the disgust lately evinced at the speech of Nicholas to It is not to such treaties that the Polish nation looks for rezeneration and freedom. The Czars, in this instant, as formerly, have proved how superior they are to European cabinets in diplomatic intrigue, and how contemptuously they regard the idea of their interference. The kingdom of Po land instituted and guaranteed by the Congress of Vienna, has long since been transformed into a Russian Province ; and the government; which made themselves responsible for its existence have patiently permitted this insulting outrage. No ! the fate of Poland is not dependant upon any treaty, or will of any despot. A nation of twenty millions cannot Perish so long as it retains the moral consciousness of its rights, and the sentiment of its national existence. Tile .- - - -=•-- the dep:hation of IVarsaw, has filled their h ea rt s w i t h a •••• i! ! ..t- the nun_ber o f th e h ous e. lie had ne • • ' - l'Ullnowo to them. Thepublic press, w ith f urt h er d eta il s to g i ve relat i ve to the money a d vance d t o cwisoirttiou fun, ........ , e indignationg felt by Fieschi, or upon any other subject connected with this affair. one vo:a?,.proclziiinad to the wont, ~...._. , pdaii,itl t,thlat:ll the throatene u u...: !rover E xam i ne d b y the Procureur-General.— Ilan, If he an 0 11 n the wl:dle Inglish of Poland; • atid Caused the' tj'fat-4 tO, g•i.tiu 1 .1 tler upon 'his pr0i,.,....., •' •••R occasion denied a particular intimacy with Morey, and hims e lf surroun d e d b y f our po li ce throne: The prdcL , et t ligs; (), of are .Prltish GoVetrittidnt it tir:l4 Wharne .. -• lain his emb arrassmen t nu d e: in Turkey, tlic ltattiral ethiskldcace 6,f ivlneli riinst be the i•fficcrs, and h w:is easy to e., restoration of Poland; have causes the rteftivtes to hope, such circumstances. He was astoul,— led at the accusation, that they win, e'er 10g, bd called again to arms in the .ind had not the courage to reply directly to the question, ,:ause of nialdthid acid dfiji6i r country. The same hope •of the President ;be never received patriots at his 1::)ose : thrills throigh the Wart of 4.411 Pc drit it is in, the name if he said so in his interrogatory, it must be attributed to of that beloved country, that we nod' thicLeeii ifld British the state of stupefaction he was iii , nati on , and unroll before its face, once more her past, her Al: Dupont, counsel for Morey, observed that if Pepin present, and her future hopes, certain as we are, that the had denied f/ilt intimacy with Morey, the latter had avowed more the came of Poland Is examined and discussed, the it, and therefore it eorokl not be considered of a guilty more it will oliallene the sympathy of all honest men. mature. In the name of ,our country we ask of the British people to inspire into the breasts of their representatives their own enthusiastic persuasion of the importance of the restoration of Poland, to impress upon Parliament the combined utility and glory of assisting us to liberate o ur un h appy country from the tyranny of the Russian Czar ; all doubts of whose cruelties and crimes are at an cod since his address to the deputation of Warsaw, an address which, while it confirms all that has been told of the past, proclaims to the world that, that past is nothing to what Poland may in future expect. But we make this appeal, not more to invite sympathy for ourselves, than to arouse the British nation to a due sense of their own interests, and of what may be their own fate',.,if the plans of Nicholas are suffered to be realized. And trusting that the sentiments we have here expressed, and which were induced by our conviction of the general interest taken in the fate of Poland by the British people, will meet with their approbation, we anxiously but confi, dently await the hour which shall call us back victorious and free to the homes of our fathers, of the coming of which hour we are as sure, as there is justice in heaven, and the signal of whose approach we should hail with more gladness from none than from the brave, the generous, the enter prising, the enlightened, the free people of Great Britain. By order of the whole body of the Polish Emigration, in London, THE COMMITTEE. PARIS. INFERNAL MACHINE PLOT. COURT OF PEERS, MONDAY, FEB. 1. (Continued from The Sun of yesterday.) TRIAL OF FIESCHT, PEPIN, MOREY, BOIREAU, AND BESCHER, FOR THE CONSPIRACY TO TAKE AWAY THE KING'S LIFE BY DIEANS OF THE INFERNAL MACHINE EMPLOYED ON THE 28TH JULY, 1835. Pieschi then demanded leave to speak. I was working at the Barriere du Trone ; when I arrived they had begun dinner, but M. Levaillant, the deputy and a magistrate— a man of the Government, will tell you, when be is inter rogated, that they talked about some members of the Cham ber of Deputies, and of M. Salverte. M. Levaillant said that he was one of the most assiduous of the deputies. They afterwards named the great talents of the Chamber M. Odillon Barrot, M. Mauguin ' M. Berryer. He said that M. M augu i n did no t wor k ; but that, if be would do so, he would become one of the most celebrated men. M. Odillon Barrot did not work any more than he, but he was a man of great talent. When the coffee came, M. Le vaillant spoke of the Chamber itself. We are waiting, said he, for the end of the session, to present our budget ; we are spending .15f. or 20f. a-day. If I had not perceived the Legitimatist party enter the Chamber, I should not have concerned myself about it. Pepin then said—But, M. Le vaillant, if the King should happen to die—if lightning— if an earthquake—if an epidemic disease M. Levaillant then said—What would you do then ? Laissons bouillir k mouton. This is what I have already said, and I say it again. The President questioned Pepin upon his connexion with the Prince de Rohan. He stated in reply that the Prince gave him an order for goods every winter ; that he ap peared interested in his behalf ; that Fieschi might have heard that the Prince was coming to his house, it not being a usual thing for a Prince to alight at a roturier's. The Prince had told him that he did not see any thing of Ge neral de Damns, because he was a compiler of biographies; their conversation turned chiefly upon the subject of manu factures. The President—Did you not also talk politics together ? —A little. What was the nature of your 'conversation ?—Since the Prins° is not present, I do not, know whether I ought to make known his political opinions. I begged him to inte rest himself for Fieschi with M. de Damas. What was the nature of the political conversation which took place between you and M. de Rollin ?—We spoke of the passing events of the day. M. de Rohan styled him self a patriot. When he called himself a patriot, did you not under stand that by that word he meant a Republican ?—(After somelesitation)—Yes. Did M. de Rohan say nothing of the King or his family, or the present form of Government ?—I now recollect that he called himself a relation of the King. What conclusion did he wish to draw from that fact ? I cannot say ; but he told me that he never went to the Tuileries. Did he state why ?—He did not. Fieschi being called upon by the President to state what he knew on this subject, replied, that Pepin had told him that M. de Rohan was a Republican and a relative of Louis Philip, but he was not in the habit of seeing the King since his accession to the throne. Upon that he (Fieschi) had said that M. de Rohan was no more of a Republican than Charles X. Pepin in part admitted the truth of Fieschi's assertion, and added, that the Prince de Rohan was nearly 80 years of age, and could have little to do with the case now before the Court. (ro Pepin)—Were not the gun-barrels tried at the Barricre de Montreuil?—Supposing any such trial to have taken place, is it likely that it would have been made at such a distance from my house, where I,have extensive and convenient premises. The prisoner Boireau was orderea to stand up, and the President proceeded with his interrogatorp--He had not belonged to the Society of. the Rights of Man. He had never expressed opinions decidedly opposed to the Govern- Meat. He could not say whether Fieschi had come to sleep at his lodgings on the 24th of July, and bad been prevented from going up stairs by the porter. He came on the 25th, at least Fieschi told him so ; however, he gave directions not to admit him when he called so late. He became acquainted with Fieschi in 1834, at the house of a marl named Jeannin. He met him subsequently in front of his master's house. After that he called to see him again. He was not particularly intimate with him, but he had an esteem for him, believing him to be unfortunate, as a poh tical character, for having served under General Murat.— (Laughter.) Fieschi slept at his lodgings on the night of the 24th or 25th of July last, and never before. He said he was obliged' to conceal himself on account of the April affair. Fieschi never confided to him his project of the in fernal machine. He (the prisoner) never informed him of a conspiracy on foot to assassinate the King upon the road to Neuilly. Fieschi persisted in his declaration that Boireau had spoken to him of that project ; as to the names, he had for gotten them. . Boireau—lt is strange that Fieschi, whose memory is so good on other matters, should have forgotten those names, if I had ever mentioned them. Fieschi—When people are romancing, I ,don't pay much attention : that is not my affair. President—Boireau, you spoke of the attempt of the 2Sth July, before it took place ?—I said I had heard that the King would be fired at in the neighbourhood of Porte St. Martin. Did you say that the Carlists would make the attempt, and that the patriots should be ready to act ?—No. To some other questions Boireau replied that he did not know Pepin ;he had bought groceries at his shop. Pepin had told him nothing about the plot of the 28th. A female named Calemut deposed that she had heard no thing from the prisoner Pepin relative to the design upon the King's life. At three o'clock the sitting was suspended. Did you not go to the house of a restaurateur named Bertrand ?—Fieschi has stated that we breakfasted upon cheese, and yesterday he stated that we brezkfasted at my house. We cannot have breakfasted twice. SPAIN. CIIAMBER OF PROCURADORES. SITTING OF JAN. 24. The President to Resehi.—Fiesehi, what have you to reply Fiesebi.—My reply is, that we ate something early in the morning, and afterwards breakfasted. The President of the Council on the Ministerial bench. The order of the day the continuation of the discussion of the project of the electoral law. M. Perpina declared that he would vote against the 17th article of the law. Pepin.)—On your preliminary examination, you ad mitted that you dined at a restaurateur's in company with Ficschi and Morey?—Never : but I think I said that when Morey requested me to find a situation for Fieschi, we drank a bottle of wine in the neighbourhood of the I3arriere du 'Prone. M. Calderon Collantes said that the first question was to decide whether the mode of voting should be in public or in private. He believed it was impossible to keep the secret of any vote though the electors voted by close bulle tins, for the President of the Electoral College and the scrutineers would necessarily have a knowledge of the vote. The Commission has adopted the mode of election by pro vinces for the purpose of putting the electors beyond the reach of corruption. The interest of the Government will be more difficult with regard to 2,000 electors than it would be with 200 or 300. It is by isolating the electors that they are delivered over to corruption. He concluded lay jus tifying the report of the Committee. The President of the Council—l will inquire which of the two modes of election, by provinces or by districts, offer the most decided advantages ? If the Government has already declared that it does not agree in opinion with those who opposed the project of the Commission, it is because it is convinced of the impossibility of supporting this opinion by plausible arguments, and the Ministry, in thus acting, after the declarations which it made, and after having sacri ficed the sympathies of its partisans—for the project clearly proves that if it were possible to regulate promptly the dis tricts—it would have adopted the method of voting by dis tricts, although that method would have been contrary to its ideas—but the Government thinks that it would be impos sible to gratify the wishes of the nation, and to fulfil the promise o promptly convoking the next Cortes, if the 17th article of the project were rejected. If the article be adopted, the Government will be able to carry on with activity the labours concerning the elections. In the contrary case, it would-be compelled to adjourn the elections until the mo ment when it should receive sufficient data concerning- the territory to convoke the electors. The thing has been repre sented as an easy one. Nevertheless, the Ministers are not so fertilein means as to overcome difficulties. However, Government, having reflected upon the proposition made by M. Gilliam) yesterday evening, invites the Chamber, through me, to send back the 34th article to the Committee. M. Alcala Galiano-1 think that it is not necessary to send back the article to the Committee. The Chamber may vote upon the article drawn up thus :—" The 160 highest tax-payers that shall elect a Deputy shall be distributed in the Electoral Colleges of each province, and not solely in the capital." Such is the modification proposed by the Committee. •- The Chamber decides that the article shall not.be sent back to the Committee. The Chamber votes. The 17th article is rejected by a majority of 71 against 66. Fifteen PrOcuradores abstained from voting. The discussion was adjourned to the next day, and the sitting closed. CHAMBER OF PROCERES.—SITTING OF DEC. 27. The business commenced at one o'clock, M. Vallejo pre siding. The Minister of Justice was present. The tribunes were occupied by a considerable number of spectators. Forty to fifty Proceres were present. The President of the Council ascended the tribune, and read the decree declaring the dissolution of the present Cortes. The Peers rose immediately, and quitted the Ball. CHAMBER. OF PIZOC URADORES.-SITTING OF Dec. 27. Did you hold a correspondence with Cavaignac ? You have denied that you have addressed a letter to him, in which you. spoke of the 2.5 francs ; hut did you ever write ti) him at all ?—I have not written to him for some time past—perhaps for two years. At what period did you lend 500 francs to Cavaignac ? —ln 1833. M. Isturiez took the Chair at two o'clock. The places apportioned for the public were crowded to excess. M. Martinez de lit Rosa, Count, Toreno, Perpina, Meoscoto Mcdrano, and some other Members of the Opposition, %I'm!, not present. The President of the Council, the Mi nisters of Justice and of the Interior, were in their usual seats. The Order of the Day was called to hear a commu nication from the Government. The Presi;lent of the Council read the Royal Decree for the dissolution of the Cortes. The prisoner Morey having demanded and received per mission to rctire for a few minutes, the sitting was suspended till his return at a quarter before five. M. Martin (du Nord) asked Pepin if he acknowholged having Ivritt en in his own hand, on his register, the sum of 150 fr. and another of 68E 50c., amounting to 218 f. 50c. in the whole given to Fiesehi, and found entered in the memorandum-book of the latter. Art. 151 of the E.';tatnto Heal was then read Pepin acknowledged that it was in his hand.writing. M. Martin (du Nord)—Did you give this sum ? Pepin—Fiesehi came to me with a bill ready drawn up, to borrow some money of me, of which I made a note until I could satisfy his request. In the mean time I judged right to do otherwise. The President, M. Isturiez—By virtue of the commn nieution which Las just been made, the Chamber is dis solved. A few faint " Vivas" were raised for Mendizabal and the Queen Regent by the spectators. The Ministe rial Deputies surrounded him, and offered him their con gratulations. _ _ M. Martin (du Nord)—•-I ask you positively why you wrote these two lines ? Pepin —I reply positively that it was a note of demand of loan. M. Martin (du Nord)—Why should there be two entries? Pepin—lt is only one note ; it refers to about two months before the attempt. • M. Martin (du Nord)—The two sums relate to different. epochs, since they are written in two different kinds of ink. Pepin (hesitation)---I must have changed my pen.— (Murmurs.) .After all, question all those who have known me, all those who surrounded me, they trill all tell you that I am incapable of such a horrid crime. A long series of questions of no interest was then ad dressed to Pepin ; he persisted in most positively denying them. Towards the end of the sitting, Pepin said that he had turned Fieschi out of his house for the evil designs he entertained against the Government, and that he had men tioned this to a lady. But, notwithstanding all the efforts of the Court, he could tell neither the name, nor the abode, nor the profession of this lady. At length he said that he was tired, and that he should have a better memory next day. The Court then adjourned at a quarter to 6. SITTING OF TUESDAY, FEB. 2. About 20 minutes past 12 o'clock, the prisoners, Fieschi, Morey, Pepin, Boireau, and Bescher, were brought into court, and led to the bar, if such may be called the simple bench placed immediately behind the advocates' scat. The prisoner Pieschi appeared on his first entrance somewhat. paler and more serious than on previous occasions, but he soon recove re d hi s wonte d self-po,,sesFion.and smiling coun tenance, so strangely contrasting with his situation . Morey seemed extremely ill and dejected. Pepin's countenance assumed more of gloom than on the former days. The other prisoners exhibited their usual indifference. At half-past 12 o'clock the President, Baron Pasquicr, took the - chair. • • Interrogatory of 'Pepin continued.---The name Of the female he had forgotten .at the previous examination was Madame Calemud, residing in the Rue.de la 11 ; oquettr. Be - The following is the decree of dissolution read in the two Chamber.;:— Isabella IL, by the Grace of God, and in her Royal narno, Donna Maria Christina de Bourbon, as Queen Regent during the minority of my august daughter, to a!I those whom it may concern, &., tee. The Council of Regency, and that of the Ministry, having been understood, I ordain as follows: _ Art. 1. The General Cortes of the kingdom will assemble at liladrid on the 22d of March next, to discuss the Electoral Law, which I shall submit for their deliberation, and for other important business concerning the public weal. 2. The Chamber of Procuradorcs being dissolved by my De cree of this day, it will proceed to the election of new Mem bers, according to the regulations of my Royal Decree of March 20. 1834. 3. For this purpose, the Electoral 'Juntas of the districts established by the Ist Article of the Decree of May-20th, will assemble Oa February 19Lli casuist;, and the Provincial on the 26th of the same month. 4. The Proceres of the kingdom, and the Procuradorcs must be in Madrid before the 17th of March. On that dal the Procuradores will hold their first preparatory sitting pre scribed by Article 3 of the regulati on f or t h e government and organization of the •Chamber of Proeuradores in the Corte. 5. In the distant provinces .the election of Procuradort s will he proceeded with as soon as the competent authoriti s shall have received the present decree. - THE QUEEN REGENT. Countersigned, A. D. 'l'. MENDIZABAL.. Prado, Jan. 26, 1:136. The Madrid e - T'Aette of January 2S, contains the follow ing article :—" The position of the present Ministry at the opening of the Cortes, o n th e 1 6t h of Decernber, was the following :—A vote of confidence was necessary ; an electo r:d law and a law for the liberty of the press. A vote of confidence in order to obtain a • moral an l political wei:At, and the necessary sources to terminate within a brief period the war with the factious—the electoral law, to convoke w, soon as possible the Cortes charged to revise in accordance with the 'rnrone the Esialato Reel, and the law of the presy, in order that at the time of the revision of the Estando Real principles and notions capable of directinc , üblia opinion, that of the Government, and that of the Legislators, night he Published with ou t shackles : as guarante e of the ve ?i confidence th a t th e Ad m i n i strat i on propoze d to demand, will present the law for Ministerial-responsibility. • Such was the programme of the Legislature period,,,, programme wit j a c t h o was w•h t iV opened at the above e `commencement of the execution of that of Septembcr, and 1 which, in the position that the -Ministers were placeo in, was a question to them, not of principle and of theories, but a -systenlofpolei,t:inceatle(b the force of circumstance. Government,tberealisation o: w hie! / is absolutely - The .. 7 , , ,, r i s ta observes that the it (iisisswooltrlttiloiNn of o a ti fi le rin Cor a t n e , 7 .. it be Said that d t , l l l r e in P g r t e h s l i e de d n e t . .:;:),;)illife:teesterocs:ic . f.esi.ritLcit•.:toce,hti,:-„Cinclitc.,.:;r:ol i .t1 ^ 1:: : :: < 1 1 0( 1 . it. 7. i 2rol:; ! a,l,a i i a pprobation :linyait..pi;i:7lel ; l(o.let,o, liim exercise il. the preroga a personal quest;on for him when he uttered that sentiment. fiew the only means o f saving his country depended upon the adoption of the rese.. lotion which he has come to. On Thursday night last, a man named John Hughes, an Irishman, was taken into custody on sospicion of having robbed a native, named Garland, of upwards of 601. The charge was denied by the prisoner, though the evidence collected seemed to leave no doubt of the _fact. It appeared that the parties had been drinking till a fete hour, and that the poorer friend robbed the richer.--Liver pool Albion. • LORD BROUGHAM'S NURSE.—On Monday,. b:!- tween thirty and fbrty of the master bookbinders of Ediu burgh, in order to testify their respect for the oldest mem ber of the profession, Mr. Patrick Whyte, Lawnmarket, entertained him at dinner. In the course of the evening, the croupier, in proposing " the memory of Mrs. Whyte," stated that the wife of their guest bad been nurse to the Ex-Chancellor of Britain. Lord Brougham and \Tame ; and that she had travelled with him from Edinburgh to Brougham Hall, when he was two ware of age. EXECUTION IN PA RlS.—David, the assassin of his sistereie-law, wife of an officer of the Hotel des Inva hides, was executed on Wednesday l as t i n the .Place St. Jacques, at Pane. At 6 oclock in the morning tie Re gistrar informed hien that his last hour was approachng ; he received the intelligence without changing countenance, or betraying the least emotion. The. Abbe Moines imme diately entered his cell, and the culprit made confes sion. At 8 the executioner any his assistants arrived, and while the operation called the hedette was performing, he he showed complete calmness and resignation. He per sisted in his innocence, affirming that his only intention was to commit suicide, but the pistol having burst in his hand, he discharged the other pistol at his sister-in-law me , chemically. Upon reaching the Place St. Jacques, at half past eight,Sie ascended the scaffold with a firm step. He bowed three times to the people assembled around him, who did not exceed 3,000, and seemed disposed to address them, but was prevented, and the fall of the fatal knife put a period tb Ins existence STEPHEN PERLIN'S DESCRIPTION OF ENG LAND.—The following singular passage is extracted from a very rare work with the above title, which was printed in 1553. It was dedicated to the Duchess of Berry. After giving some account of the rebellion in Queen Mary's reign, our author says, "The Milor Nortumbellant, the Duke of Suphor, and the Miler Arundelle, were taken prisoners. They were condemned to the castle of the Tower, under an escort of 800 men. The mob called Milor Nortum bellant vile traitor, and-he furiously eyed them with looks of resentment. Two'days'afterwards he was taken to Ouse mestre (Westminster) to his trial, which did not. last more than 15 days at most, and he, the Duke of Suphor, and Milor Arundelle, were condemned to be beheaded before the castle of the Tower ; and they had the pain of seeing each other under the hands of a hangman. This hangman was lame of a leg, and he wore a white apron like a butcher. This great Lord made great lamentations, and prayed ten derly. After the execution, little children gathered up the blood winch had fallen through the slits in the scaffold. The Queen not long after, proclaimed through all England against eating flesh on Fridays and Saturdays, on pain of being hanged and strangled." The death of the late Viscount Hood, at Whitley Abbey, was awfully sudden. He had been partaking of a luncheon with Lady Hood and Mr. Kirkby, the portrait painter, of Leamington, with both of whom he had been eneerged in cheerful conversation, when, in a few minutes afterward:, while in the act of walking from the dining room to the library, his Lordship fell down, and almost instantly expired. 1 1 .1 r. Kirkby at the time of this melancholy event was in attendance at the Abbey, for the express purpose of taking his Lordship's' likeness. On Monday afternoon. a sailing barge belonging to Messrs. Smith and Brown, of Kingston, while going down the river, in huffing, ran over a boat off Execution Dock stairs, Wapping, and swamped it. There were two pas sengers (one the Captain of a vessel proceeding to the Corn Market with a peck of samples) and a watermen in the boat, who narrowly escaped with their lives. They were picked up by watermen who put off from the plying place. The people in the barge did not render any assistance. SYMPTOMS OF INSANITY.—The nephew of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford, was deranged. He de lighted in what he called " book-hunting." This notable diversion consisted in taking a volume of a book and hiding it. in some secret part of the library, among volumes of shin ier binding and size. When he had forgot where the 0 - me lay, he hunted until he found it. JERSEY.—The proposed measure for prohibiting the importation of foreign produce into the island of Jer sey, fbnnded on the farmers' petition, has been warmly dis cussed at - the sitting of the States, and it .has met with a very strong opposition. The Operation of such a measure, it is urged, would be very injurious to the interests of the the island, as its etihct would be to raise prices considerably, and drive away the British residents. The market has al ready been affected by the farmer's petition ; the prices of meat and oysters have advanced, the latter considerably. Burlington House, in Piccadilly, where the late Duke of Portland resided until his death, and in which George, the first Earl of Burlington died, was the property of the Duke of Devonshire, who, on the death of the Duke of Portland, advertised the mansion fer sale by public auction. It was purchased by the Earl of Burlington, then Lord George Cavendish, and left by his Lordship to his youngest son, the Hon. Charles Compton Cavendish. The present Earl of Burlington being heir presumptive to the Duke of Devonshire, shoe ld his Grace die without issue, will of course succeed to his title end estates. CURIOUS LETTERS IN THE " WitoNo Box." —A short time since a sale of Government bedding mate rials-took place, and among the articles to he disposed of was an iron safe, the key of which had been lost. The lot was sold, as usual, with " all faults and errors of descrip tion," for 151. to a broker of the name of Jackson. A smith was sent for to open the safe, when a neat mahogany box was discovered, and when the box was unlocked, behold a parcel of white satin bee ' s, containing a large assortment of letters—the correspondence of King George IV. with a celebrated Marchioness and a variety of other distinguished personages. Information was (riven of the discovery to the Duke of Wellington, who shortly after sent two gentlemen to obtain the letters on behalf of its Majesty ; and the broker was compensated for his good conduct with a (Imo. ceur of 50/. HIGHLAND BAGPIPE.—Mr. Millar, of Montrose, the celebrated performer on the Nortlannbriae, Union, and Great Highland Bagpipes, now in Dundee, has made an improvement on our noble national instrument, the bagpipe., lie has added a horn to the lower end of the chanter, and by perforating various holes which he works by means of keys, he has added three notes to the diatonic scale—one above and two below. lie has also i s troclaccd semitones, which render the instrument so harmonious, that it has been accompanied by the violin and violincello with excelleat effect.—pandec Paper. Lord Langdale, the Master of the Rolls, was the medical attendant on the eclebrAtcd Countess of Oxford and Mortimer, when her Ladyship and family travelled on the Continent. On his return to London he became a pepii to Mr. Bell, of the Chancery Bar. By perseverance. talent, and industry, he justly attained the high station he now fills. It must be gratifying to Mr. hell to live to see ::is pupil fill so high An office. A few years ago he married • Lady Jane Harley, the airiest daughter of the Earl of ON.. ford. Lady Oxford departeel this life a few years ago at Rome. Her Ladyship's eldeSt son was drowned in the bay of Naples. Both bodies were 'onought over, and buried in Brampton Bryon Church, Herefort:shire. The present Lord Harley is married to the Marquis of Westincath's eldest daughter.—Hereford Paper. NOVEL APPLICATION OF THE JACQUARD LooM.—A most important application of this splendid cu vention has just been made. The Jacquard :own is now • bei used in raisin-; figures on bed-qu i 1 ts. '[s i te fiFm-'s are in relief on the surface of the cloth, a nd are ea f irml bound as on counterpanes made in the ;swat .way. T r h ead e inspect:on 0! a 1:3-11•12s quilt, j u st finished, hers wilt s • satisfaCtion. The effect on the p rices of these ar. be astonishing. A quilt, 10-siths , • J 3 the Jacquard loom' 'I may be had raw for 18s. ; w hilst one made in the usual manner costs 30s. in wages only. - 28 Ttie Commissioners Of M ANCHE STER, JAN. •-- Stamps have renewed the informations' against all the parties who were summoned to . appear lase week at our New Bailey, . bat w hich were all quashed as informal. The Commi ss ioners agent, Mr. Casson, has declared he has no authority to compromise with any of the parties, c an d that the law must take ' e e f a ° t . it e t il i t o i s e i . s; oerse. Several of the to abandon o prosecutions i dad t j) ie ci ei r o t g i s e:: sleta b leave till inflexible, and determined "to go the Whole 5,000 t, but not hog." The• penalties exceed sd.will th e y obtain eXcept by a compromise Lo's's ON REPUTATION.—The clock at the Horse Guard a which for many years was, from its acknowledged accuracy, the universal standard of London time, has lately become, so irregular as to be no longer depended Trion. A few daies ago it was above half an hour wrong, to the asto nisharsat of the numerous persons who witnessed it 3 limel3'. Mate,- "i'idE SUN. I,OMbON, VEBRUARY 4, 1836.